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...knowledge applied to journalism. It has not enough suspense to hold the attention as a story, but it has enough science to hold the scientifically curious. What would happen if an asteroid should drop in the Atlantic eleven hundred miles east of Boston? The love element is an irritating non-essential; the suspense created as to "the great disaster" is killed almost at once by the idea of triviality caused by the thirty-minute conversation before the all-important question is asked and answered...
Rumors that the B. A. A. games will be called off or postponed on account of non-completion of the Arena track are emphatically denied by Chairman Geiger of the committee in charge of the games. All that remains to be done on the track is to put it in place after the ice is removed, and in the event of a carpenters' strike, enough members of the B. A. A. have volunteered to help to make it a certainty that the track will be ready...
...invitation from their contemporaries to a general discussion of the problems co existent with college organizations. Participation, not isolation, is the course which will win respect from those college men, whose respect we certainly do not care to lose. Without participation we can hope for no leadership, and non-representation can not but abstract from the well-earned glory of athletic victories...
...plenty, but none carries a rhythm that lends itself to memory; several start out promisingly enough, but after the first few bars, falter and lapse into inconsequential airs. Notwithstanding this handicap, however, which is quite offset by a wealth of Billy Van comedy, the piece provides a non-brain taxing, enjoyable evening. And as for the French joke on the red card,--something not new but done in a different way,--it must be heard to be appreciated...
...most of whom could not even speak English. There was a Swede, a Finn, a Frenchman; a Serbian, a Czecho Slovakian, a Mexican, a Pole, and a Russian. These men are graduates of the Army School at Camp Dix, one of six Army Schools which take the illiterate and non-English speaking recruits and by means of a thorough course in English and citizenship, coupled with instruction in the fundamental duties of a soldier, turns them out intelligent, patriotic and disciplined Americans...